Welcome to PinballX. A Digital Pinball Front End.

PinballX is a free digital pinball front end designed for digital pinball cabinets developed by the author of GameEx with components by Headsoft. It is compatible with HyperPin media and databases. Credit to Bill E for creating the first digital pinball front end publicy available HyperPin. PinballX would not have been possible without it or at the very least where it is now.

PinballX is currently a new project created at the end of May 2013 and is in active development.

A Lite version of PinballX is also included specifically designed for windows tablets.

Modern and higher end hardware is highly recommended for pinball cabs with two or three screens due to the demands of multiple high resolution videos and constantly loading high resolution artwork. However, PinballX itself does not demand much itself and the lite version requires next to nothing to run.

Note: PinballX is not free for commercial use. You should contact us before including or using PinballX with your products.

Friday, May 18, 2018

Monday, May 14, 2018

My third and final attempt at switching to SlimDX from Managed Direct X.

We basically had to lose full screen exclusive mode for this but even without this everything still runs much smoother in the front end. FPS is perfect for me and the new video framework also runs much smoother with this now.

Saturday, May 12, 2018

- Improved screen grabbing and new video recording features.
- The screen grab key now grabs screen captures for all displays and will format them automatically and save them in the most suitable location. This backglass screen grab hot key has been removed as this now grabs everything.
- New video recording feature. Available via a hot key when a table is launched or direct from the Game Manager.
- Easily created front end media for your tables.
- Videos automatically formatted and encoded to the correct size, quality and format.
- Captures and records videos for all displays automatically encoding and formatting them for you. Driver based capture such as Geforce experience and ATI is supported for the playfield too.
- Also captures pinup topper videos/rendering if available along with directly capturing the PinMAME window if detected.

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Several fixes

Removed thread locking opening and disposing videos

I just wanted to remind folks that I do realise videos may load a little slower with recent releases but please be aware minimum system requirements for videos are now much lower and both 4k and 60fps videos are fully supported.

Sunday, April 8, 2018

So the second time I tried to move things to SlimDX has been another disaster for PinballX. So I've given up on it and rolled back again to Managed DirectX with this release. All should now be good in the world.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

I believe I have resolved the conflict issues and the DirectX API library has been upgraded to SlimDX again.

In addition in this release all video rendering (as in video files) is now hardware accelerated. On modern systems this means 60fps and 4k videos should not be on an issue. On low end systems video playback should not slow anything down and you should get full fps in PinballX.

Saturday, November 11, 2017

These are mainly performance improvement related releases with general optimizations to key functions as well as rendering and the executable compiles.

This should hopefully result in better FPS and speed improvements throughout although obviously it will be more noticeable on lower end machines.

With GameEx several other areas have been improved for performance such as the Jukebox, loading Game Info, the Movie Library and getting Meta Data.

In addition the YouTube feature is now working again and the Move Library has been improved significantly. Getting Meta Data for the movie library is now much quicker to and downloading music artist and album images is working again.

I also made the decision to make the Media Library and DVD/BluRays on disk features free for all users and no longer a registered version feature.

I am toying with the idea of releasing a sub version of GameEx without gaming features, purely as a free HTPC solution. Please let me know your thoughts on this.

In preparation for the season I, and behalf of all of my loyal team and friends who work alongside me wish you all the best, happy thanksgiving, happy Hanukkah, Eid, Kwanzaa and Merry Christmas!.

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Sunday, September 24, 2017

PinballX 2.39

This release has Pinball Arcade working again with the latest version of the software. Ensure to set the interface version as 4 in the Setup Wizard.

Pinball Arcade Camera Mod is now directly supported as the launch target instead of the Pinball Arcade Executable and direct table launch is supported. This is automatically detected if the executable is the camera mod and the -table [TABLEFILE] parameters are used. Ensure that PinballX runs as administrator when trying to use the camera mod. Here is what the settings should like for direct table launch with the camera mod. Otherwise the latest version of Pinball Arcade is supported using grid selection with this release.

Sunday, April 30, 2017

Friday, April 28, 2017

- Fixes game manager overwriting wheel image when doing bulk online import and set not to overwrite.
- If not set to hide when in game, topper, dmd and blackglass videos will now try and play with any system assuming its not a visual pinball game and an image match is available. Results will vary.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

This release contains an updated game manager which extends upon the 2.33 versions new feature to import all media for a table online at once by adding the ability to skip existing files and continue downloading media.

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

- Topper / 4th monitor video support.
- Fixes focus issues when using VPX full screen exclusive.
- Some nice updates to the PinballX download service available from the game manager. Can now import all media in bulk for a game. Improved online file matching. More media now available thanks to all the contributions.
- Several new parameter tags have been added when launching processes.

Sunday, April 16, 2017

It has been a little while but happy Easter and I bring you an update to your favorite Pinball front end.

For those with 4 monitors this release brings topper image support.
Fixes some focus issues with VPX.
Fixes VP auto configure incorrectly setting the second set as buttons as nudge instead of Magma Save.

Enjoy.

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